At the beginning of the year I wrote an article for User Experience magazine’s Usable Forms issue. The print magazine has been floating around for a while and the website just got updated with details of the new issue. The online extract includes some of the footnote links slightly out of context. Nonetheless, it’s kind [...]
Wesabe have a helpful page that shows some key interactions from the mobile and iPhone services. This is demonstrated by a short description accompanying a screenshot from an iPhone and a Motorola Razr (early version methinks). The Motorola has a pretty ordinary web experience, so it’s not the strongest contender the regular mobile device world [...]
On Thursday, the reference department initiated service via txt messaging. By doing so, we’ve joined a small handful of academic libraries making this format available to patrons. In order to txt the reference desk, patrons should dial 265010, enter our IM screen name “azkzaklive†followed by their question and press enter. The question will arrive [...]
Nuance buys Tegic, and looks beyond the search input possibilities to mobile content. The $265 million that Nuance Communications is paying for Tegic is a sign that predictive texting (like Tegic’s T9 protocol) can complement, rather than compete with, automated speech-based dictation. When the leading automated speech processing technology provider makes a point of acquiring [...]
For Nokia Series 60 phones. Enter three zeros on the keypad while in the text message (SMS) editor. via Business 2Go
Roughly Drafted has struck a blow to my hopes that my Treo had something over the iPhone: text entry. Wrong again. My recollection of being able to blindly type on its keyboard was also simply a false memory. I had to watch the keyboard just as closely as the iPhone, if not more. Part of [...]
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